
- Google photos takeout metadata zip file#
- Google photos takeout metadata android#
- Google photos takeout metadata software#
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Her Android phone was syncing every image on the phone to Google Photos. On investigating, I found out that she had used all the 15GB data. Some days ago, my wife's Google account happened to stop working.
The utility described in this article takes an extracted takeput folder as an input and downloads all the real images in the output folder. This json file contains the link where the actual image is located. The problem is that Google selectively replaces a Json file for an image file inside the zip.
User can download a zip file containing all (all really?) photos. Google provides a way for users to download data from Google photos through Google TakeOut. You may want to refer to the source code if you want to develop any progress bar based application. My corresponding_json function was able to find the corresponding json for all ~7,000 photos/videos I had taken out.Please note that as of 13 th January 2020, the application described in the article DOES NOT WORK as Google has removed file links from the takeout JSON files.
Live photos were exported as image.jpg and image.mp4, with as the metadata fileĪccounting for all of this weirdness (source code here),. (note that the (1) didn’t count towards their 51 character limit)
If it’s a duplicate file like image(1).jpg, then it can actually be 54 characters. json files appear to have cap of 51 characters (most of the time) image-edited.jpg generally corresponds to image.jpg. I wrote a corresponding_json function and iterated on it, starting with the simple heuristic of appending. If I refine the 2nd page’s heuristics a little bit, I can just rename the JSON files to be consistent and use the 1st page’s exiftool command! My turn to try This only takes fills the DateTimeOriginal field and drops useful GPS data. The 3 rules are comprehensive, but not complete. Inconsistent JSON naming and has heuristics to work around this This Github project is a node project that populates the DateTimeOriginal EXIF field. This only fixes media like image.jpg if exists. Unfortunately they assume that the naming of the json files is consistent. I googled a bunch to look for a solution and found 2 useful but incomplete pages:Ĭommand to take the useful JSON metadata like creation time, GPS coordinates, etc. It almost feels like Google’s intentionally making it subtly difficult to migrate away from Google Photos… img(1).jpg maps to img.jpg(1).json instead of img(1).jpg.json. image.jpg, image-edited.jpg both correspond to ) The naming of the metadata json files is hilariously inconsistent. into instead of embedding it into image.jpg’s exif data For an image called image.jpg, Google Photos saves metadata like GPS data, photo timestamp, etc. This would break the photo sorting in other software. Some photos I took in 2015 were dated to 2022 in EXIF. Your media’s EXIF data may or may not be what you expect. Sure, you can easily take out all your photos by simply using Google Takeout, Moving from Google Photos to some other photo management software (Apple Photos in my case) is annoyingly difficult.